Officials in the Trump administration are facing increasingly personal blowback for some of the administration's wildly unpopular policies in a growing feud that some fear has raised the specter of political violence in the US.

When House Speaker Paul Ryan informed the GOP conference in April that he would not seek reelection this year, he hammered in the point to his colleagues that he would "run through the tape." The growing problem for Ryan is that the tape might be much closer than he thought.